Modality in English : : Theory and Description /

Modality in English : : Theory and Description / / ed. by Johan van der Auwera, Pierre Busuttil, Raphael Salkie.

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This volume presents two kinds of studies on English modality. On the one hand, there are strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of individual uses of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions, such as may in interrogatives, might in concessive clauses, shall and may vs must in legal Engli...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
HerausgeberIn:
Auwera, Johan van der,
Busuttil, Pierre,
Salkie, Raphael,
MitwirkendeR:
Auwera, Johan,
Bourdin, Philippe,
Busuttil, Pierre,
Celle, Agnès,
Charnock, Ross,
Declerck, Renaat,
Deschamps, Alain,
Dufaye, Lionel,
Ghio, Gilbert,
Krug, Manfred,
Larreya, Paul,
Marín-Arrese, Juana I.,
Mitchell, Keith,
Rivière, Claude,
Rocq-Migette, Christiane,
Salkie, Raphael,
Souesme, Jean-Claude,
Timotijevic, Jelena,
Verhulst, An,
Williams, Christopher,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 58
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Towards a typology of modality in language
  • ‘Not-yet-factual at time t’: a neglected modal concept
  • Semantic ascent, deixis, intersubjectivity and modality
  • Degrees of modality
  • Another look at modals and subjectivity
  • For a topological representation of the modal system of English
  • Epistemic might in the interrogative
  • MAY in concessive contexts
  • When may means must: deontic modality in English statute construction
  • Legal English and the ‘modal revolution’
  • Posteriority in expressions with must and have to: a case of interplay between syntax, semantics and pragmatics
  • Using the adjectives surprised/surprising to express epistemic modality
  • Commitment and subjectivity in the discourse of a judicial inquiry
  • Hearsay adverbs and modality
  • When Yes means No, and other hidden modalities
  • Modality and the history of English adhortatives
  • On the “great modal shift” sustained by come to VP
  • Backmatter

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